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Tonight's Programme for Sale

Laz

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So, here we go again...

 

Burton Albion

 

When everyone has stopped assuming that I'm being critical can I ask a question?

 

It say 95p + 75p postgage (£1.70).

 

The programme is £2.50 in the ground.

 

Can I simply purchase it here and (a) save 80p (B) not have to bother carrying it around with me on Saturday? I never read it on the day anyway.

 

Comments, please!

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If you buy it this way it won't have the authentic beer stains and folds where its been shoved in a back pocket.

 

You should just be pleased that some Burton fan who is being made to stay at home is getting a copy and the money is still ending up with the club!

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Hi Wench.

 

I suspect that you know more about this chap than I do. He describes the item as 'new'. If indeed, he sells the programme and it has beer stains and folds as you outline, he might be open to criticism for misrepresenting the item in his description. I imagine that regular buyers on e-bay are unlikely to involve the proper authorities or suggest that he is 'obtaining money under false pretences' which is, I believe the correct description of what is known as fraud.

 

I shall make further enquiries of the members of the Committee of the Supporters Club tomorrow. Certainly, they were unaware of this person's activities last Tuesday evening. As a member of the Supporters Club, and they are elected representatives, I have no doubt that they will tell me how much they have received as a result of the efforts of this chap over the past few weeks.

 

I will let you know. He/she may be in line for the prestige 'Clubman of the Year' award at the end of the season.

 

He is a busy chap, isn't he? He must be retired, I imagine.

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I know as much about this mysterious seller as you do or for that matter as you know about me,

 

I'm just amazed at the amount of concern at the outcry over this, as long as the club benefits (which I'm sure it will- I still have faith in mankind) does it really matter. As long as everyone gets a programme who wants one. Perhaps the seller should rein in their enthuasiasm and wait until after the match.

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I imagine that there might have been some concern on the part of some of those visitors to this forum that matchday programmes, in advance of their availability for sale to members of the public, were in possession of someone who is offering them for sale on e-bay.

 

More particularly, that person has sold a number of such items this season without any reference to the proceeds being passed to the Supporters Club. Despite your faith in mankind, you might acknowledge the possibility that he/she was intending to gain personally from his/her efforts.

 

Indeed, the change [that profits are to be passed to the Supporters Club] was only made once one or two of the contributors here began to show passing interest - as opposed to concern or outcry - in this person's activities.

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Well given that the original Woking programme which started this thread sold for £1, can't see there's much profit to be passed to the Supporteers Club (after e-bay fees etc the buyer probably got 60p or less net). Even less if the seller paid face value for the programme. And even if they didn't, surely it costs more than 60p per copy to print. Let's hope the seller is not charging their losses to the Supporters Club!

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I sleep fine, thanks.

 

I was intrigued at one particular point. This person posted a photograph of the front cover of the actual programme of the Woking match during the afternoon before the game took place. He or she would have had no knowledge of the passing interest being shown in the matter by one ot two persons on this forum, no doubt, and then, the following morning, by remarkable co-incidence, the person had changed the photograph to one of a previous match.

 

Now why might he or she have done that, I wonder? He/she was in possession of a programme before it was available to the general public. He photographed the thing. But then he changed the photo after the game had taken place.

 

Perhaps it was the beer stains and folds.

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